Finding Grenfell

Tracing the Grenfell Mission in Southern Labrador

Finding Grenfell

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Agriculture - Research Photos

This album contains all photos sourced during research for the Agriculture interpretive panel.
18 Images
Sister Bailey in her garden. Denison Cottage, Forteau. 1915. Isobel Millen photos.
Sister Bailey. Denison Cottage, Forteau. 1915. Isobel Millen photos.
Man tending cold frames outside Denison Cottage, Forteau nursing station. June 1934. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 26-32.
Women working in a field, Forteau, ca. 1930. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 172-93.
Digging a garden at the St. Marys River Hospital, ca. 1930. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 1-231.
Tending the garden at the St. Marys River hospital, ca. 1930. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 1-239.
Barn, St. Marys River, 1946. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 33-221.
The greenhouse, Cartwright, 1936. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 24-491.
Two children in garden eating rhubarb, Cartwright, 1932. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 92-188.
Two men standing by a vegetable garden. Fred C. Sears at right. Seal Islands, 1932. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 92-210.
Fishing net pen, Seal Island, 1933. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 26-194.
Two women and a man in a cabbage garden, Spotted Islands, ca. 1932. Man is Dr. Tyweffort. The Rooms Provincial Archives A 58-105.
Druscilla Hopkins and her garden, Seal Island, 1933. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 43-121.
Fred Coleman Sears, unidentified nurse and physician Wilfred Grenfell in vegetable garden, 1932. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 92-185.
Giant cabbage. Man holding a giant cabbage grown in the garden of Miss Murdoch of Labrador (Forteau). The cabbage weighed 15 and a half pounds. Described in Among the Deep Sea Fishers, January 1935. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 32-2.
Herding the goats and the calf. Forteau, 1940s. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 23-390.
Woman standing beside house for hot-bed heater at Forteau. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 11-12.
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